Cheech and Chong head to Amsterdam after being invited to attend a film festival, but there happens to be a strange case of mistaken identity. They were expecting Burt Reynolds and Dolly Parton, but Cheech and Chong go ahead with the trip despite that of the Manager's grave concerns over the debacle. So, the duo decides they would perform a show for the festival. Where they spend their time lazing about in the hotel, checking out hot spots and dreaming up skits that they can perform.
Oh man, how awkward and self-indulgent can this get. I loved the first three films; "Up in Smoke", "Next Movie" and "Nice Dreams". But for this outing, everything about is simply in shambles. And to think I was going to purchase it. Phew, that was a close shave! How to describe it embarrassing and tired. As I sat there, I found it to get less funny with its forced humour that got too silly and became stale far too quickly. From watching their other films, I knew there wouldn't be much of a story with individual skits making up the feature. What we got here, is simply a bland holiday gig for the clownish, two stoners; Cheech and Chong to get up to trouble in Amsterdam and actually play themselves in some dreamed-up episodes that they could perform in their stand-up live show at the end of the film. Too bad I found it mostly boring and the support performances just make you cringe. Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin are so-so, it's just the material they have come up with, equals such lacking and disappointing results with too few successful stints of humour. Some skits go on for too long. Even the humour has even less do with drugs here, and goes for infantile cracks and beyond crude remarks and actions. Sure, I wouldn't mind it, but I didn't find all of it remotely amusing.
It couldn't get anymore poor than this. A total drag that's straining for laughs.
Oh man, how awkward and self-indulgent can this get. I loved the first three films; "Up in Smoke", "Next Movie" and "Nice Dreams". But for this outing, everything about is simply in shambles. And to think I was going to purchase it. Phew, that was a close shave! How to describe it embarrassing and tired. As I sat there, I found it to get less funny with its forced humour that got too silly and became stale far too quickly. From watching their other films, I knew there wouldn't be much of a story with individual skits making up the feature. What we got here, is simply a bland holiday gig for the clownish, two stoners; Cheech and Chong to get up to trouble in Amsterdam and actually play themselves in some dreamed-up episodes that they could perform in their stand-up live show at the end of the film. Too bad I found it mostly boring and the support performances just make you cringe. Tommy Chong and Cheech Marin are so-so, it's just the material they have come up with, equals such lacking and disappointing results with too few successful stints of humour. Some skits go on for too long. Even the humour has even less do with drugs here, and goes for infantile cracks and beyond crude remarks and actions. Sure, I wouldn't mind it, but I didn't find all of it remotely amusing.
It couldn't get anymore poor than this. A total drag that's straining for laughs.